what impact do you think that had on the national conversation? >> i think it enshrined a place in the national dialogue for issues like income disparity. i mean, the whole fiscal cliff situation is very much, look at the way that's being framed. 98% versus 2%. it's very close to the 99% that was the rallying cry of occupy, and the same thing with the argument over jobs versus austerity. are we going to go the way of europe or are we going to try to stimulate the economy back into a more comfortable spot, rather than waiting for it to grow by inches as we've been doing. >> there were a lot of issues on the state ballot, and tyche, you can say governor brown put all his eggs in one basket, proposition 30, and it passed. what does he get. >> well, he gets forward momentum, which was really, i think, really in question for a while. there were folks saying, you know, if prop 30's polling below 60% of the vote that it's sunk, that you can't pass a tax measure with such a close margin. it ended up passing with a 55%-45% margin. and it really -- i think